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Spiritual Care

UCLA Health is dedicated to excellence in patient care, including meeting the spiritual needs of our patients and their families.

Interfaith Chaplains can provide spiritual care and assistance, sacramental ministries, and spiritual support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Chaplains are available for Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, and the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA. From 8:30 am to 5 pm, call the Spiritual Care Office at (310) 825-7484 to request a visit. After hours ask your nurse to page the On-Call Chaplain at pager #91770 or contact the Page Operator at (310) 825-6301 and request that the On-Call Chaplain be paged. The Interfaith Chaplains can also contact a religious leader of a particular faith tradition at your request.

If you need spiritual care services for UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, please call (424) 259-8170.

An interfaith Meditation Room/Chapel (Room 1109) is available for private prayer and meditation 24 hours a day. It is located on the first floor of the hospital just inside the front entrance.

A Chaplain is available for your Spiritual Care needs

  • To visit all patients
  • To listen
  • To pray, at your request
  • To share in your faith struggles
  • To assist you in seeking inner peace and strength
  • To help answer your spiritual questions
  • To bring you a Bible, sacred texts, or holy writings from specific faith traditions
  • To assist you in contacting religious leaders from your faith tradition
  • To help meet your specific faith or spiritual needs

To contact a Chaplain:

Call the Spiritual Care Department
In the hospital - Extension 57484
Outside the hospital - (310) 825-7484

Spiritual Care Department 
UCLA Health 
1001 Gayley Ave. 2nd Fl Ste 3
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1733

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Spiritual Care services include

Interfaith Meditation Room/Chapel

  • Open 24 hours daily - located in Room 1109 on the first floor of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center by the main entrance
  • Regular visits week days from an interfaith Chaplain assigned to your Nursing Unit
  • Visits from an interfaith on-call Chaplain for emergencies and urgent requests 24/7
  • An interdisciplinary healthcare team that includes a Chaplain
  • Bibles, sacred texts and holy writings from varied faith traditions
  • Literature for special spiritual care needs
  • Grief and crisis support
  • Liaison with local faith communities to meet your specific needs

Meditation Room/Chapel at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Meditation Room/Chapel, Ronald Reagan
UCLA Medical Center - Photo by Benny Chan/Fotoworks

For Christian Communion, Baptisms and Anointing

  • Anointing with oil
  • Baptisms are performed on an emergency basis
  • Communion is available upon request
  • Roman Catholic Anointing of the Sick and Reconciliation are provided upon request and priest availability

Jewish items available on request

  • Kosher menu from dietician
    (all heated items are pre-frozen and double wrapped)
  • Shabbat boxes
    (electric candles, challah, and grape juice as available)
  • Call to check availability for: Shofar blowing for Rosh Hashanah, Lulav and Etrog for Sukkot, Menorah for Channukah, Jewish sacred texts

Meditation Room/Chapel at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center

Meditation Room/Chapel, UCLA Medical
Center, Santa Monica.

Muslim services available

  • Friday prayers at 1:10 pm in Meditation Room/Chapel - first floor
  • Muslim volunteer and Chaplain to visit when available
  • Prayer rugs for use in Meditation Room

Scheduled Services

  • Buddhist Dharma Talk and Meditation
    Tuesday, 5:30 pm- 7:00 pm, University Catholic Center, 633 Gayley Avenue (behind hospital)
  • Jummah (Islamic Friday Prayer)
    Friday, 1:10 pm - 1:30 pm, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Meditation Room/Chapel - first floor
  • Jewish Shabbat Service (Egalitarian)
    Friday, 4:30 pm- 5:00 pm, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Meditation Room/Chapel - first floor
  • A Time of Healing Prayers
    Sunday, 10:30 am - 11:00 am, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Meditation Room/Chapel - first floor
  • Roman Catholic Mass
    Sunday, Noon - 12:30 pm, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, B level Auditorium - B130

Special Holy Day Celebrations

Ash Wednesday (Ecumenical), Good Friday (Ecumenical), Easter (Roman Catholic), Christmas (Roman Catholic), Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Channukah, Passover, Purim, Shavuot, Ramadan, Iftar, Roman Catholic Holy Days of Obligation


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